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Impact of Migration on Economic and Social Development: Review of Evidence and Emerging Issues

Author : Dilip Ratha | 2016

Published By: GIPE

This paper reviews the literature on the development impact of migration and
remittances on origin countries and on destination countries in the South.
International migration has development implications for origin and destination
countries in the South and in the North. Some 215 million people or three per
cent of the world's population are believed to live outside their countries of birth
(United Nations 2009). While the focus in the literature has been on South-North
migration, the number of migrants between developing countries is estimated to
be as large as the number of migrants moving from South to North (Ratha and
Shaw 2007).

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Strengthen and Harmonize Research and Action on Migration in the Indian Context (SHRAMIC) is a Tata Trusts initiative on migration anchored by IGIDR in collaboration with CPR, IRIS-KF, NIUA and the Tata Trusts' Migration Program Partners.